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Dolanism, Dolanites = Why US Catholicism is Sucking Zyklon B!
Zyklon B – Timothy Dolan Catholicism
Even before any of the modern methods of mass-producing prussic acid were developed, suggestions were made that it could be used systematically to kill humans. A Berlin pharmacist is credited with the proposal to use rags with prussic acid placed on bayonets to combat the advancing Napoleonic army in 1813.[1] During World War I, the French army reportedly – according to Fritz Haber, the German chemist who helped develop poisonous gas for German Army use (see below) – used 2000 tons of prussic acid as a poison gas agent in artillery ammunition.[2]
Hydrocyanic acid was widely used for the fumigation of valuable tree crops. It was initially applied to citrus fruit in 1887 in California.[3] Use spread toSpain and other countries using either liquid prussic acid, calcium cyanide, or sodium cyanide preparations. During World War I other HCN-based pest control applications were developed, and soon fumigation of ships, stores, factories, and even residential buildings with hydrocyanic acid gas became a popular method of combatting insect and rodent pests in many countries.[4] Thousands of ships, cereal mills, and other food processing factories were fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas until the mid-1930s in Germany alone.
Degussa (“Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt”) had a leading role in the German research on pest control with hydrocyanic acid gas from 1916/17 on.[5] Degussa’s expertise in handling HCN resulted from its use in the extraction of gold from gold ore. Initially, the so-called pot method was used to simply generate HCN gas by treating sodium cyanide or potassium cyanide with diluted sulfuric acid in a pot.[6] Like the utilisation of highly concentrated liquid prussic acid, the pot method has a number of disadvantages. For example, prussic acid is chemically stable only for a limited period of time. This hinders long-term storage. Also, highly explosive air-HCN mixtures form easily when applied.
In March 1919 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (Degesch, lit. “German Limited Company for Pest Control”) was founded by a consortium of German chemical companies including Degussa, and initially led by chemistry Nobel laureate Fritz Haber. Haber had World War I experience in the development of poison gas for the German chemical warfare program. At Degesch, Ferdinand Flury developed Zyklon A in 1920. Its development was a major advance over previous methods of delivering hydrocyanic acid for pest control because of its improved chemical stability and the presence of a warning odorant.[7]
“A fumigating and disinfecting team getting ready to work in New Orleans” 1939; Zyklon canisters visible
Walter Heerdt, Bruno Tesch and Gerhard Peters were all collaborators of Fritz Haber working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at Berlin-Dahlem. Out of this group of Haber assistants, Walter Heerdt was named the official inventor of Zyklon B in a Degesch patent application from 20 June 1922 (number DE 438818). Reichspatentamt awarded the patent on 27 December 1926.[8] The main invention in Zyklon B consisted of the absorption of liquid hydrocyanic acid into a highly porous adsorbent. Initially, heated diatomite (diatomaceous earth) was used as an adsorbent. Later, high-porosity gypsum pellets called Erco-dice (described by eye witnesses as “crystals”) as well as disks made from wood fibre were also used. The adsorbed hydrocyanic acid was very safe in handling and storage when placed in inexpensive airtight cans of various sizes.[9] Gerhard Peters, manager of Degesch, cites M. Kaiser to the effect that
Heute ist die Zyklon-Blausäure als “das Mittel der Wahl” [...] nicht nur zur Entwanzung und Entlausung, sondern ganz allgemein zur Entwesung großer Räume in allen Erdteilen bekannt. (“Today Zyklon-prussic-acid is known on all continents as the means of choice [...] not only for debugging and delousing but also, in general, for disinfesting large rooms.)
From 1929 onwards the U.S. used Zyklon B to disinfect the freight trains and clothes of Mexican immigrants entering the U.S.[10] Farm Securities Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott recorded the use of cyanide gas and Zyklon B by the Public Health Service at the New Orleans Quarantine Station during the 1930s.[11]
In early 1942, Zyklon B had emerged as the preferred extermination tool of the Nazi regime for both the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanekextermination camps during the Holocaust. The chemical claimed the lives of roughly 1.2 million people in these camps. Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, said that the use of Zyklon-B came about on the initiative of one of his subordinates, Captain Karl Fritzsch, who used the substance to kill some Russian POWs in late August 1941. The experiment was repeated on more Russian POWs, with Höss watching, in September of the same year.[12] The emergence of Zyklon-B as the preferred chemical was a multistranded process.[13]
BANK OF DOLAN
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An Open Letter to George Weigel [re-posted with Permission(s) Granted]
Pope Francis met with media (Photo credit: Catholic Church (England and Wales))
*This open letter is re-posted in its entirety with permission(s) granted by John Medaille, University of Dallas.
An Open Letter to George Weigel
BY SOLIDARITY HALL • MARCH 16, 2013
To our brother, George:
It is wonderful how the election of a new pope causes the world to stop for a time and listen. We heard the words of Pope Francis describing his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, as “the man of the poor. The man of peace. The man who loved and cared for creation.” Perhaps with astonishment, we heard him add, “How I would like a poor church…and for the poor.”
Such a moment calls to mind the role that earlier popes have played in world affairs, and the legacies they have left us. For many Americans, the papacy of John Paul II, for example, is seen through the lenses supplied by you, his most famous English-language biographer.
And now, in close coincidence with the accession of Pope Francis, we note the publication of your latest book, Evangelical Catholicism, with its particular project for the Church, one which we believe would benefit from further reflection as well.
In its Prologue, you explain what you do not intend by this term: Evangelical Catholicism does not refer to borrowing techniques from the evangelical churches, nor to some particularly American religious ethos, nor to some particular response to the clerical abuse crisis.
Rather surprisingly to us as we read the book, neither does evangelical Catholicism apparently have any reference to questions of political economy, to the condition of the poor or to the state of the environment–all of them themes dear to the new pontiff’s heart, as we are discovering, just as they were to his predecessor.
In your interpretation, evangelical Catholicism seems to be mostly about getting catechetics and metaphysics right. “Evangelical Catholicism,” you say, “is the Catholicism that is being born, often with great difficulty, through the work of the Holy Spirit in prompting deep Catholic reform — a reform that meets the challenges posed to Christian orthodoxy and Christian life by the riptides of change that have reshaped world culture since the 19th century.”
You conclude, “Grasped in its fullness, Evangelical Catholicism invites Catholics (and indeed all who are interested in the Catholic Church) to move beyond the left/right surface arguments of past decades, which were largely about ecclesiastical power, and into a deeper reflection on the missionary heart of the Church — and to consider how that heart might be given expression in the 21st century and the third millennium. Evangelical Catholicism is about the future. Grasping its essence, however, means learning a new way of looking at the recent Catholic past.”
As admirers of your earlier work, we wish to take you up on your suggestion of looking anew at the recent Catholic—and non-Catholic—past. In particular, while we share your devotion to the “free and virtuous society,” it is the way in which those virtues should condition our freedom that we wish to discuss here by posing the following questions to you:
- The recession of 2008, the consolidation of financial assets (especially in the banking industry), the impact of unmanaged globalization, and the looming threats of economic collapse due to the severity of the austerity measures now grinding European societies into a grim destitution: all of these world-shaking developments have been often and urgently addressed by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, by Pope Francis, by many other Church leaders and by many fellow figures of American conservatism. How is it that you, with your background in modern Catholic social thought, have chosen not to comment prominently on these sufferings in the body of the Church and beyond?
- As one of America’s better-known public intellectuals, you demonstrate a range of understanding in many areas of thought. Yet you exhibit no particular curiosity about questions of political economy. Were these matters truly settled to your satisfaction in the Reagan-era debates over globalization and what came to be called neoliberalism? We cannot think so, and invite you to consider carefully the work of such individuals as your Ethics and Public Policy Center colleague John Mueller, University of Dallas professor John Medaille, and Professor Stefano Zamagni (a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Studies). These and other figures have inspired a movement called, variously, natural law economics, the economy of communion, and (in the case of the encyclicalCaritas in Veritate) the “gift economy.” Of these hopeful and reflective new ways of looking at the recent Catholic past, you’ve had very little or nothing to say, other than arguing that the Church keep a lower profile in public policy debates on the principle that “less is more.” Can the Church really avoid addressing such critical questions on the pretext that they are, as you maintain, matters of “technical solutions” beyond the Church’s competence? Would you not concede that this scientistic notion of economics has led us blindly to the purest kind of materialistic economism?
- While decrying “the left/right surface arguments of past decades,” your preferred way to address many Catholic groups with whom you differ often includes a certain amount of muted sarcasm. For example, you’ve written of “proponents of granola and Corona-lite gnosticism” and the like. Is it not time to acknowledge that a culture warrior makes for a poor evangelist—or evangelical Catholic?
- Although the Western democracies won the Cold War, perhaps you would agree with our recent Popes that we then lost the peace in many respects. Similarly, we believe the Culture War has had unintended consequences. By some lights, the recent presidential election demonstrated that the pro-life movement has allowed itself to lapse into a “half-life” movement mostly based in mailing-list politics and legal threats. Its adherents have too often left the critique of other social evils to their pro-choice opponents, with the result that in our public discussions, the wickedness of abortion has been camouflaged behind a mantle of concern for poverty, for social inequality, and for women’s well-being. Those on the left who care about these latter issues have been told that in order to be true to their moral intuitions about the importance of helping women get out of poverty, and the importance of making sure that every child has a good chance at a flourishing life, they must deafen themselves to their moral intuition about abortion. How much good might you do for the pro-life movement should you chose to argue forcefully for a “both-and” view of this issue–i.e., on behalf of a “whole life” view?
- Pope Benedict XVI repeatedly addressed the grave environmental challenges facing the world in both his writings and in his public pronouncements. There is every reason to expect that Pope Francis will continue in the same vein. Given the commodification and extractive exploitation of the natural world, and the great burden this places on the world’s poor and also on future generations, would you join us (and now a second Magisterium) in calling for a continued emphasis on faithful stewardship of the environment and its resources for the common benefit of all humanity?
- While having written extensively about the dangers of a selective approach to Catholic doctrine and teachings, you uncharacteristically recommended that your readers approach Benedict’s Caritas in Veritate with gold and red pens in hand, red for any criticism of neoliberal orthodoxy (such as that favored by the Acton Institute), gold for unobjectionable criticism of the culture of death. Are you not thereby facilitating precisely the cafeteria Catholic’s approach to such documents? Do you not believe that living “lives of moral heroism against the conventions of the age” has to include a rejection of consumerism and the whole complex of cultural values associated with it?
- Echoing the sentiments of his 20th Century predecessors, Pope John Paul II once stated, “War is always a defeat for humanity.” You beg to differ, and have dedicated a good part of your public career to espousing your interpretation of just war principles, which you vigorously asserted in the case of the Iraq War. A decade later, in the aftermath of one of the worst humanitarian and moral disasters in recent world history, that “Marshall Plan for the New American Century” looks very different. Given your prominence in reconciling faithful Catholics to this series of decisions, might we ask whether any second thoughts have occurred to you (as they certainly have to fellow conservatives such as David Frumand others) on the conflict? How would you evaluate your own prudential judgment, historically speaking, in making the principled case for this particular war? Would you not acknowledge that our American leadership of our recent almost interminable conflicts is a product of a technocratic hubris completely alien to the generation of George Marshall and George Kennan? If the Vatican is wise to eschew recommending “technical solutions,” as you advise, due to its supposed lack of competence in such matters, how much worse has the supposed expertise of our secular leadership proven to be? Who, as we now can see, spoke up in a timely way for prudence and a sense of human limits here?
- Finally, you have repeatedly invoked John Courtney Murray’s contributions to the Church as a model for integrating authentic Catholic teaching with American-style liberal democracy. Yet surely you are aware that Murray’s ideas partly inspired the “Hyannisport Conclave” of 1964, which laid the groundwork for legalized abortion on liberty grounds, or what Justice Kennedy has called “the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” Have you reflected on the fact that political liberalism, especially in the American context, has become a powerful relativizing force, and that perhaps Murray’s contributions ought to be reconsidered in the light of the accelerating secularization of American society since the Council? Should our new way of looking at the past not include a revaluation of Murray’s legacy and its unintended consequences?
We wish to state here our belief that a form of evangelical Catholicism—meaning by that term, in addition to your “strong truths generously lived,” a localism that includes civic engagement, enabled by but free from co-optation by government—will indeed be required in communities across this country, given the strong likelihood of new financial calamity and perhaps an accompanying de facto devolution of political power. If such occurs, our situation will be novel but not unique: we might cite the recent rise of Pentecostal networks (with their own evangelistic dynamic) as a kind of substitute society in the poorest favelas of Brazil.
In the modern world, we believe a “gospel-proclaiming” church simply must address nonviolence, justice, poverty, consumerism, wealth-worship, the failures of the national-security state and the abuse of the natural world in order to remain faithful to the gospel it purports to be proclaiming. It must show, as you have with your faithfulness in the life issues, a true understanding of the value of the human person, even in the face of a culture of commodification that seeks to reduce people to either “human capital” or mere consumers.
And so we call upon you to join Pope Francis in working to make the next century’s Catholicism—preferably without any qualifying adjectives–free from elements of materialistic/technocratic Gnosticism, neoliberal ideology, a less-than-critical faith in market mechanisms or indeed any fear of the very Incarnation we should hope to glimpse in the faces of our own neighbors.
And we hope that our efforts at a kind of fraternal engagement with you here will be received in the charitable spirit that inspired them: a desire to honor your fidelity in speaking up for the most vulnerable in society, and a request for you to join us in linking the cause of those most vulnerable with the cause of others victimized by the rampant commodification of persons and planet that is one of the darkest legacies of the century just past.
[signed]
Elias Crim, publisher, Solidarity Hall
Mark Gordon, contributing editor, Solidarity Hall
Michael Stafford, Catholic attorney and syndicated columnist
John Medaille, University of Dallas
Our Open Door
Think of Solidarity Hall as a hospitable old hostelry, a mental oasis in the deserted landscapes that surround us.
We no longer have the coffeehouses of eighteenth-century London, where Samuel Johnson and his friends said more of substance in an hour than our blogs today could manage in a week. Nor do we have a local culture of pubs such as Chesterton’s Old Cheshire Cheese, where friendship could flourish easily, even amidst clashing opinions.
And please don’t bring up Starbucks, where laptop solipsism mostly rules.
So where can we champions of the commons convene, at least in a virtual sense, snugly out of the big media weather?
So where can we champions of the commons convene, at least in a virtual sense, snugly out of the big media weather?
We’re tempted to feel that a kind of mental poverty and lack of moral vision afflict almost every neighborhood.
While public discourse is in many places becoming less civil and sane, we hope to be a beacon of civility; where the cult of technocracy reigns, we hope to be the advocates of an humble personalism; where small-scale solutions to neighborhood problems are ignored, we hope to be their champions.
Thus we see our project, to begin with, as that of rethinking several of the big words we use: community, work, neighbor, history, imagination. We coined the term “thinkerspace” (on the model of hackerspace or makerspace) to suggest the kind of place where such rethinking occurs.
Like the Polish trade union remembered in our name, we are pushing back against another wall—that of ideological blindness—built jointly by camps representing the State on one hand and the Market on the other.
Like the Solidarity movement, we desire nothing less than to change public perceptions of our social condition—and then, in our own lives and our own communities to act.
If your aim is to become a real citizen and a true neighbor, walk through our open door and join us.
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The Gargoyle Code by Dwight Longenecker
The Gargoyle Code
The Gargoyle Code makes for un-put-downable reading at any time, but it is especially designed as a book to be read during Lent. The letters from the tempters begin on Shrove Tuesday and follow day by day, taking the reader on an entertaining enlightening and sobering journey to Easter Day.
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Remnant Newspaper: Did the Wolves Win? Or Has the Holy Father Discovered a Way to Outsmart the Wolf Pack?
Did the Wolves Win? Or Has the Holy Father Discovered a Way to Outsmart the Wolf Pack?
by Michael J. Matt
The Vatican Press Office made an announcement this morning that has shocked the world: the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will resign at the end of February.
Clearly, the Church is entering waters now that are as perilous as they are unknown. Let us… presume the best of our Holy Father’s decision to resign, citing a lack of strength at 85 years old to carry out his papal duties.
Before commenting much further, we believe further prayer and reflection are in order. This much is obvious, however: the wolves inside the Vatican and out have been circling our ageing pontiff ever since he was elected to Peter’s chair. At the very beginning of his reign Benedict asked us to pray for him that he would not flee for fear of the wolves.
And now the whole world is confronted with a question that may never be answered, even by history itself: Is Pope Benedict resigning because the wolves all around him have achieved their diabolical objective, or has he found a way of circumventing their evil designs by removing himself from their gullets? We believe it to be the latter. Pope Benedict XVI will not allow the wolves to act in his name to the detriment of the Church any longer. Vatileaks alone has shown this to be more than a mere wild conspiracy theory.
What now? Pray incessantly for a younger but still tradition-minded successor who will attempt to carry on the reforms Pope Benedict was quite obviously prevented from continuing.
May God help us all, and may He bless and protect his Church under siege from the world and in near total chaos internally. We pray for Pope Benedict, and ask our merciful God to watch over and protect him now and always.
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The Remnant has been fighting against the revolution in the Church for over forty years, just as it has been fighting against the errors that infect the modern state– Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, the New World Order, a degenerate youth culture, the abortion epidemic, euthanasia, sex education, etc.
The Restoration of the Catholic Church will come from the top down, and not from the bottom up. And so it is that lay efforts like The Remnant carry on, always looking to Rome for the real Restoration to finally begin. Until that happens though, laymen must do all in their power to keep their own Faith and to do what ever they can to help others to do the same in this spiritual Dark Age.
Rather than merely cursing that Darkness, The Remnant has attempted to keep the candle of the Catholic Faith lit, and to survive this nightmare until the light of the new dawn of the Restoration of the Catholic Church can be seen on the horizon.
May God help us all to keep the Faith until that
blessed day finally dawns!
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Petrus Romanus, The Final Pope is Here by Thomas R. Horn
Petrus Romanus, The Final Pope is Here
For more than 800 hundreds years scholars have pointed to the dark augury having to do with “the last Pope.” The prophecy, taken from St. Malachy’s “Prophecy of the Popes,” is among a list of verses predicting each of the Roman Catholic popes from Pope Celestine II to the final pope, “Peter the Roman,” whose reign would end in the destruction of Rome. First published in 1595, the prophecies were attributed to St. Malachy by a Benedictine historian named Arnold de Wyon, who recorded them in his book, Lignum Vitae. Tradition holds that Malachy had been called to Rome by Pope Innocent II, and while there, he experienced the vision of the future popes, including the last one, which he wrote down in a series of cryptic phrases. According to the prophecy, the next pope (following Benedict XVI) is to be the final pontiff, Petrus Romanus or Peter the Roman. The idea by some Catholics that the next pope on St. Malachy’s list heralds the beginning of “great apostasy” followed by “great tribulation” sets the stage for the imminent unfolding of apocalyptic events, something many non-Catholics would agree with. This would give rise to a false prophet, who according to the book of Revelation leads the world’s religious communities into embracing a political leader known as Antichrist. In recent history, several Catholic priests–some deceased now–have been surprisingly outspoken on what they have seen as this inevitable danger rising from within the ranks of Catholicism as a result of secret satanic “Illuminati-Masonic” influences. These priests claim secret knowledge of an multinational power elite and occult hierarchy operating behind supranatural and global political machinations. Among this secret society are sinister false Catholic infiltrators who understand that, as the Roman Catholic Church represents one-sixth of the world’s population and over half of all Christians, it is indispensable for controlling future global elements in matters of church and state and the fulfillment of a diabolical plan they call “Alta Vendetta,” which is set to assume control of the papacy and to help the False Prophet deceive the world’s faithful (including Catholics) into worshipping Antichrist. As stated by Dr. Michael Lake on the front cover, Catholic and evangelical scholars have dreaded this moment for centuries. Unfortunately, as readers will learn, time for avoiding Peter the Roman just ran out.
Related:
PETRUS ROMANUS (Pt 17)
The False Prophet And The Antichrist Are Here
The Transnational Hand Behind The Rise Of President Obama, The Coming Kingdom Of Antichrist, And Petrus Romanus
Interestingly, Pope Benedict XVI may have admitted to the same group when, in 2008, he told United Nations diplomats that multilateral consensus needed to solve global difficulties was “in crisis” because answers to the problems were being “subordinated to the decisions of the few.” His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, may have acknowledged the same, believing a One-World Government beneath the guidance of a ruling superclass in league with spiritual influences (whether they perceived it that way or not) was inevitable. If researchers like Dr. Monteith are correct, and world governments are to this day influenced by such dark angelic powers, the elite who head the current push to establish a New World Order are directly connected with an antichrist system currently unfolding.
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The Basis of Civilization by Dale Ahlquist, American Chesterton Society
Considered by many to be Chesterton’s best book, it is certainly his most indispensable book, a unique and refreshing spiritual autobiography and defense of the Christian faith. Everyone should read this book. Everyone should read it every year.
Chesterton says that every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. The obvious things are the ordinary things, and we have forgotten them. The modern world that we have created has brought with it great strain and stress so that even the things that normal men have normally desired are no longer desirable: “marriage and fair ownership and worship and the mysterious worth of man.” Those are the normal and ordinary things. Those are the things we have lost, and we need to recover them.
“The disintegration of rational society,” says Chesterton, “started in the drift from the hearth and the family; the solution must be a drift back.” -Excerpt The Basis of Civilization by Dale Ahlquist, American Chesterton Society
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The American Chesterton Society (ACS), founded in 1996, works to promote interest in G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), one of the 20th century’s greatest writers. A convert to the Catholic Church, Chesterton wrote over a hundred books during his lifetime and published over five thousand essays in newspapers and magazines.
One of the most quoted writers in the English language, yet one of the least studied, G.K. Chesterton foresaw and wrote about the issues we struggle with today: social injustice, the culture of death, the decline of the arts, assaults on religion, and attacks on the family and on the dignity of the human person.
Interest in, and appreciation for, Chesterton’s work appears to be growing thanks in part to the sustained efforts of the ACS. Our organization’s efforts include:
Television. The Apostle of Common Sense, our television series on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). This popular program, now on its seventh season, is designed to help viewers discover and rediscover G.K. Chesterton, to be challenged by his ideas, to see the completeness of his thought, and to be treated to the joy and depth of his faith.
Periodicals. Members of the American Chesterton Society receive a subscription to our award-winning publication, Gilbert Magazine. Each issue contains original writings by Chesterton covering any subject under (or above) the sun. In addition, our own contributors write on family life, the arts, politics, faith, current events, popular culture, literary and film criticism, and original short fiction.
Website and Online Store. Our popular website includes a wealth of information on G.K. Chesterton, including free access to many of Chesterton’s writings, a collection of his quotations, and nearly one hundred of Dale Ahlquist’s lectures on Chesterton’s books and essays. Our online store is the most complete collection of Chesterton-related material anywhere on the internet.
Publishing. Through our newest initiative, ACS Books, we are publishing our own titles, in both soft cover and e-book format. Our first two books, short detective stories, were released in 2011. In March of 2012, we published The Hound of Distributism, a volume of essays on Chesterton’s economic theory of Distributism, which is attracting considerable interest during the current period of socio-economic malaise.
Conferences and Pilgrimages. The ACS will hold its 32st annual conference at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts in August of 2013. We’ll also host a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy in March of 2013. The trip will feature a full-day International Chesterton conference, organized in collaboration with the Italian Chesterton Society.
Local Societies. We now have nearly 60 local Chesterton Societies around the country, and we have assigned a dedicated volunteer liaison to support increasing society activity. We’ve also supported the efforts of Chesterton societies getting started in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, and Russia.
Invited Lectures. Dale Ahlquist has given over 200 talks on Chesterton in the last four years and dozens of radio interviews. Recent invited talks include a lecture at the International Congress on G.K. Chesterton at the University of San Pablo in Madrid; the Men of Christ Conference in Milwaukee; and the Bringing America Back to Life symposium in Cleveland.
The “Amber” Collection. Through our electronic database of Chesterton’s writings, the ACS continues to build the most complete collection of Chesterton’s writings anywhere on earth. Over the past fifteen years, we have been painstakingly collecting Chesterton’s works and transferring them to an electronic database – a monumental task. In the past three years, Dale Ahlquist has discovered almost 300 uncollected Chesterton essays in microfilm newspaper collections in America and England. In some cases, these essays have not seen the light of day for over one hundred years. Our goal is to make this tool available to the public and to give readers around the world access to all of Chesterton’s writings for the first time ever.
Scholarly Work. Students and scholars continue to contact the ACS, as we represent a Chesterton resource far more extensive than any library. More and more graduate and post-graduate students are doing theses and dissertations on Chesterton. As a result, Chesterton’s writings are even beginning to sneak back into classrooms at scattered high schools and universities. In the past two years, three major new biographies have been published – two of them by Oxford University Press. This would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? by Harold Bloom
“This is the wisdom of annihilation, of Hamlet and Lear and perhaps Shakespeare himself. His great tragedies culminate wisdom literature, though I hope to show its aphoristic survival in Montaigne, and Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson and Goethe, Emerson and Nietzsche, Freud and Proust, before I end with the wisdom of the Catholic Church at its strongest, in Saint Augustine.” -Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? pg. 31 by Harold Bloom
In other words, the Bible is relevant because history and the great authors of the ages have judged it so. It speaks with implication of the human experience and the truth and inherent wisdom contained therein.
The Bible is both the touchstone and the wellspring of all of our lasting Western wisdom traditions and the root of all of our greatest literature.
Although, Pope Benedict provides an excellent defense of the Bible-as-religion; it’s importance has implications that cut across all human and creative endeavors. -Harry Shaw, The Shaw Centre for The Arts and Literature
In one of his most inspiring books yet, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes the reader from the Bible through the twentieth century, searching for the ways literature can inform lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, Plato and Homer, Johnson and Goethe, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Montaigne and Bacon, Emerson and Nietzsche, Freud and Proust, and finally discussions of the Gospel of Thomas and St. Augustine, Bloom distills the various—and even contrary—forms of wisdom that have shaped our thinking.
About Harold Bloom
Bloom is a literary critic, and currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He has edited hundreds of anthologies.
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…human intelligence can find, in the light of faith, the interpretative key to understanding the world. -Pope Benedict XVI, Catholicism’s Wordsmith
“Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace”, tweeted Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday at the end of his general audience with 8 thousand pilgrims in the Paul XVI hall.
As in ages past the Catholic Church has been the standard-bearer of western society, gatekeeper of language. It is with this point we introduce our readership to Pope Benedict XVI and his General Audience: God, Creation and free will delivered on 2013-02-06.
You do not have to agree with Pope Benedict XVI on theology however, there is no denying his uniqueness as gatekeeper of beautiful language.
In our secularist age of postmodern nihilism, moral and cultural relativism, the socio-economic political morass we find ourselves, language has been a victim and if language is a victim then the human person is the chief victim. Asked to describe the general audience as professional wordsmiths we could find not better descriptors than absolutely brilliant, depth of richness, we believe this to be one of his finest.
We have selected a few excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI’s General Audience: God, Creation and free will that we find most fascinating as wordsmiths and as Catholics.
-But our question today is does it make sense in the age of science and technology, to still speak of creation? How should we understand the narratives of Genesis? The Bible is not intended as a manual of the natural sciences; it wants to help us understand the authentic and profound truth of things. The fundamental truth that the stories of Genesis reveal is that the world is not a collection of contrasting forces, but has its origin and its stability in the Logos, the eternal reason of God, who continues to sustain the universe. There is a design of the world that is born from this Reason, the Spirit Creator. Believing that this is at the basis of all things, illuminates every aspect of life and gives us the courage to face the adventure of life with confidence and hope. So the Scripture tells us that the origin of the world, our origin is not irrational or out of necessity, but reason and love and freedom. And this is the alternative: the priority of the irrational, of necessity or the priority of reason, freedom and love. We believe in this position.
-The garden tells us that the reality in which God has placed the human being is not a wild forest, but a place that protects, nourishes and sustains, and the man must recognize the world not as his property to be plundered and exploited, but as gift of the Creator, a sign of His saving will, a gift to cultivate and care for, to grow and develop in accordance and harmony with the rhythms and logic of God’s plan (cf. Gen 2.8 to 15).
- “By faith, – writes the author of the Letter to the Hebrews – we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the visible world was made out of the invisible” (11.3). Faith implies, therefore, being able to recognize the invisible, by identifying traces of it in the visible world. The believer can read the great book of nature and understanding its language (cf. Ps 19.2 to 5), the universe speaks to us of God (cf. Rom 1:19-20), but we need the Word of His revelation, that stimulates faith, so that man can achieve full awareness of the reality of God as Creator and Father. In the book of Sacred Scripture human intelligence can find, in the light of faith, the interpretative key to understanding the world.
- In this way, the snake raises the suspicion that the covenant with God is like a chain that binds, which deprives of liberty and the most beautiful and precious things in life. The temptation becomes that of building their own world in which to live, not to accept the limitations of being a creature, the limits of good and evil, morality; dependence on the creating love of God is seen as a burden to be freed of. This is always the crux of the matter. But when the relationship with God is distorted, by our putting ourselves in His place, all other relationships are altered. Then the other becomes a rival, a threat: Adam, having succumbed to the temptation, immediately accuses Eve (cf. Gen 3:12), and the two hide from the sight of that God with whom they spoke as friends (see 3.8 – 10), the world is no longer a garden to live in harmony, but a place to be exploited and of hidden pitfalls (cf. 3:14-19); envy and hatred towards each other enter into man’s heart: the example of Cain who kills his brother Abel (cf. 4.3 to 9). Going against his Creator, man actually goes against himself, denies his origin and therefore his truth, and evil enters into the world, with its painful chain of pain and death. And if all that God created was good, indeed very good, after man’s free decision in favor of lies over the truth, evil entered the world. I would like to highlight one last instruction from the stories of creation: sin begets sin and the sins of history are interlinked.
Full transcript here: Pope Benedict XVI General Audience: God, Creation and free will delivered on 2013-02-06
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Shadow Warriors of The Quill
There will be a day when the most revolutionary act will be the possession of a printed book. Fahrenheit 451 is more prophetic than many realize.
In that future the greatest commodity is going to be sources of knowledge. All information will be filtered through “approved” sources—Hell! This is already beginning to happen!
Learning to use a low tech printing press might not be a bad skill to pick up….something say Benjamin Franklin would have used.
The pamphlet “Common Sense” was only 46 pages long and it set the path of this nation in the Revolutionary War.
Even owning paper in this future could be considered a revolutionary act…think about it. A blank piece of paper is the most obscene possession in a future that desires total control of your mind. A blank piece of paper contains within its confines all potentialities, all possibilities, all thought, and all heresies. -by Historian, Poet Harry Shaw.
What are we to make of this Shakespeare fellow? Jesus spoke in parables to confound those who deemed themselves wise but were fools. We have the political satire of Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland, George Orwell – Animal Farm, in many of Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales, Jonathan Swifts A Modest Proposal.
“My interest in the coded writing of William Shakespeare’s era began in the winter of 1983,” Clare Asquith tells Doug Keck, “in a crumbling, stuccoed building near the center of Moscow, watching a dramatization of Chekhov’s short stories.” From that evening, Clare began a study of possible religious and political symbolism in Shakespeare’s works; the result was Shadowplay. Did Shakespeare plead the plight of Catholics under the repressive Protestant regime of 17th-century England?
The answers are explored in Clare and Doug’s EWTN Bookmark interview (Audio) here:
First, for our readers William Shakespeare was a Catholic and many of his works incorporate his faith. With that said why is Shakespeare important to us today beyond The Arts and Literature? Simply stated, Censorship and Propaganda Wars. Internet providers, search engines, social media sites whether voluntarily or due to coercion by government are engaged in aggressive censorship to silence voices in opposition to the Corpo-Banker Government Globalist Elite socio-political economic, religious agenda. Christian voices are the singularly largest target for censorship and among Christians the Catholic Voice is squarely in the bullseye of the government censorship. Is this a surprise? Not to those who know the history of the Catholic Church and governments desire to eliminate it.
Fortunately for the educated Catholic it seems the censors of government, Internet providers, search engines, social media sites appear to be victim of their own touted government controlled education system. If you are being reviewed and censored online be…Shakespeare! literature has not been read or studied in any length by the censors this includes the parables used by Jesus.
Can you pass your E-Reader device down ten generations? It is important to suggest at this point the idea of creating your own Book Bank along the lines of a Seed Bank. In the event of the implementation of totalitarian government(s) or collapse of civilization globally the E-Reader devices Kindle, Nook, etc. will be rendered useless or subject to major censorship, revisionism of information, history in as much as this was Winston’s position in George Orwell’s 1984.
Banned Books, Government fears the written word because once it is written they cannot control its content or dissemination. There is an interesting technology push in government-controlled schools, putting a nice face on 1984 for further control of our lives, information, your children’s minds: “A Day Made of Glass” and “A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day” by Corning.
Book Description
Release date: June 27, 2006
In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could such a remarkable man born into such violently volatile times apparently make no comment about the state of England in his work?
He did. But it was hidden. Revealing Shakespeare’s sophisticated version of a forgotten code developed by 16th-century dissidents, Clare Asquith shows how he was both a genius for all time and utterly a creature of his own era: a writer who was supported by dissident Catholic aristocrats, who agonized about the fate of England’s spiritual and political life and who used the stage to attack and expose a regime which he believed had seized illegal control of the country he loved.
Shakespeare’s plays offer an acute insight into the politics and personalities of his era. And Clare Asquith’s decoding of them offers answers to several mysteries surrounding Shakespeare’s own life, including most notably why he stopped writing while still at the height of his powers. An utterly compelling combination of literary detection and political revelation, Shadowplay is the definitive expose of how Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time, and what he had to say about them.
More on Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare (AMAZON)
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Interview with Kevin Ford: Catholic Land Movement – Sustainable Living for Veterans and Their Families
*Providence and G.K. Chesterton made this interview with Kevin Ford possible.
Background:
As a community of combat and non-combat veterans, we take issue with the warehousing, lockdown and Psychotropic Drug doping of our Brothers/Sisters-in Arms and enjoy the support of many musicians and artists.
We have been on a quest for over five years to find not just a theory but also a working socio-economic model for our Divine Mercy for Veterans and their families’ project. It was the American Chesterton Society and The Distributist Review that directed us to where the answers might be found and find it we did in Distributism.
Mr. Ford, thank you for graciously allowing us to ask you some questions in regards to farming, distributism, and the Catholic Land Movement.
- Like Chesterton’s character Innocent Smith, Mans journey has led us right back to our own front door to find what we were searching for. For our readers can you briefly explain the three mysterious terms sustainable farming, distributism, and the Catholic Land Movement?
-Sustainable farming – For the past 70 years farming has been undergoing an altogether unheard of transformation. Farming, which is naturally a biological process, has been transferred into the realm of chemistry. Here man has ceased to be a steward of the land, and instead has become more of a mad scientist. Prior to the 1940’s farming was always done in a sustainable manner. This means simply a way of farming that can be done indefinitely, and one that improves soil conditions while preventing erosion. Modern industrialized farming typically does neither of these, rather it focuses on profit and larger production. This has led to widespread destruction of farmland and with the use of chemicals such as artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, it has led to state-sized dead zones in our oceans where no life can be found.
-Distributism – Distributism is not socialism, nor is it capitalism in an unfettered form. This economic model simply advocates the widest possible distribution of the means of production. In this way we preserve true freedom in the marketplace. Today’s economy is a straw man of freedom. How many shop owners can really compete with the big box store on the edge of every town. By spreading the “real property” widely, the individual is able to control his own destiny economically, rather than being a mere wage slave. Chesterton said: “The world today is so abnormal that nobody dreams of owning their own property, but rather everyone is occupied looking after someone else’s property.”
-The Catholic Land Movement – This movement began in Britain in the early 20th century with the goal of getting Catholic families back on the land. The goal was to create resilient farming families that were buffered against economic upheaval by owning their own land and growing their own food. This movement is currently being revived with the same goals in mind here in the U.S.
Great, now our readers have a basic understanding how does all of this relate to the following:
2. Veterans Living
a. Structure – Life on the farm demands structure and creates structure. The cow must be milked daily, the garden planted, harvested, etc. Such a life is not monotonous, but goes according to the natural structure and order of the seasons.
b. Camaraderie – Many tasks on the farm and in entrepreneurial activities are better achieved by a group. An example can be seen in the Amish when they have a barn raising. This achievement would be impossible without a group. Such activities build community and camaraderie.
c. Accountability – When a man owns his own property he becomes naturally accountable for it. If he learns to love it and to work with it then he will take care of it.
3. Physical, Mental, Spiritual
a. Healing – I read a story a while back about a man in Africa who built a garden. In his area of Africa there was immense poverty and drugs and alcohol along with violence had become rampant. Ultimately, these empty souls lacked meaning. This man began to invite these men into the garden to grow food with him. What happened in the area seems like a miracle, but ultimately it was immense healing. The area crime rate, alcohol and drug rates all plummeted. This all thanks to a little bit of gardening.
b. Growth – The man who plants a seed , cares for it, and watches it grow will find that it was not the seed alone that grew. Something is innate in man that makes him desire to create something all his own. This is part of our being made in God’s image and likeness. Whether it be a garden or a business, man desire to see that which he planted grow to maturity.
c. Productivity – Productivity again is a natural part of this process. He who works diligently will see what he has planted grow.
4. Substance, Value
a. Human Dignity – God made man and then he placed him in a garden. Something within us recognizes this aspect of our being whenever we are in a quiet wild place. Man’s dignity is based on his being made in God’s image and likeness, so as we conform more to God the more happiness we will find.
b. Fortitude- To do something like return to the land one must possess great fortitude. You are going against the whole tide of culture that says one finds happiness in the city making lots of money. Yet, the vigilant and contemplative man sees that those who seek after money do not find the happiness they desire. Courage is not a lack of fear but standing in the face of fear.
c. Responsibility – To run one’s own business or farm one must be very vigilant and ever responsible. Failure to lock in the cow could lead to a coyote feast and no more milk for you or your family. When you are the owner of your own destiny then you can’t blame a boss or co-worker. You have sole responsibility for your actions.
Summary/remarks
The Catholic Land Movement, Sustainable Farming, and Distributism offer a life line out of contemporary culture and into a civilization of healthier happier people.
Related Articles by Kevin Ford:
Distributism and the Local Organic Food Movement By Kevin Ford / 11 December 2012
CSA: A Distributist Agrarianism By Kevin Ford / 4 February 2012
From Teacher to Farmer: Why I Went Back to the Land By Kevin Ford / 11 November 2011
About: Kevin Ford
Kevin Ford is married to his wife Mary, and they have two young daughters. He and his family currently reside on their farm in southern Kansas. Kevin is a full-time organic farmer with a degree in Theology from Benedictine College, and he actively promotes the Catholic Land Movement and the benefits of rural life for Catholic family and culture.
Website: http://www.thecatholiclandmovement.org
About VETUNES® AIRBORNE ROCKATORIUM project:
Our project in its initial conception was flawed in that it followed the consolidated one – big farm model that included us actually warehousing veterans as farm workers.
Distributivism and Sustainable Farming showed us the stinkin in our thinkin.
Government veterans’ programs however well-intentioned have created a dependent class that strips away their human dignity and fails to touch the core principles that they know.
Our goal is to begin establishing veteran owned sustainable farms, craft and artisan shops.
Central to the project is also the establishment of our Sgt. Harry Shaw Centre for the Arts and Literature that will also house Gallagher’s Kopper Kettle performance hall.
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